Johnathan Paoli
SABC has the right to discuss in private, financial matters relating to the entity’s future, said Communications and Digital Technologies portfolio committee chairperson Boyce Maneli on Wednesday during a meeting to discuss the corporation’s annual report and financial statements.
In supporting the decision Maneli said it was a necessity to protect the SABC’s “commercially sensitive” information from exposure to industrial competition.
ANC MP Lesiba Molala concurred with the decision saying that this was established as acceptable procedure in two closed sessions with the previous board.
“We had about two closed sessions with the SABC’s previous board. And they were raising all these issues. Maybe honourable Mazzone, at that time, was not in our committee,” Molala said.
However, the DA opposed the decision with Shadow minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Natasha Mazzone saying that in the interests of transparency and accountability, the discussions should be held in the
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